Of all the things kids can get hooked on today, our kids have to fall in love with these annoying bumbling rattle gadgets called furby's. It's not enough that they each have a battery powered brain bending fur ball but they also have to have the key chains and the coloring books and when the coloring books are filled up they draw their own to color and then they tape them all together and then need to have them all taped up around the dining room. Then to top it off we find pages of Furby advertisements meticulously copied word for word and when I get on the computer I find screens of online store shopping carts with more furby's in them waiting to be checked out.
I thought we had done so well in bringing them up off the grid of commercial television and radio and even when they had come across commercials they would be the first ones to chastise and point out that they are just trying to trick us into thinking we need that when we really don't. Apparently we need to go over the art of marketing a few times because the furby's they had were not furby booms and furby booms are the new thing that is all the rage I guess. Well, we picked up a couple of furby booms for them so I think we are now the pot calling the kettle black.
